1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas explained

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Election Name:	1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas
Country:	Arkansas
Flag Year:	1924
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1928 United States presidential election in Arkansas
Previous Year:	1928
Next Election:	1936 United States presidential election in Arkansas
Next Year:	1936
Election Date:	November 8, 1932
Image1:	FDR in 1933 (3x4).jpg
Nominee1:	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Party1:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:	New York
Running Mate1:	John Nance Garner
Electoral Vote1:	9
Popular Vote1:	189,529
Percentage1:	86.44%
Nominee2:	Herbert Hoover
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:	California
Running Mate2:	Charles Curtis
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	27,465
Percentage2:	12.53%
Map Size:	300px
President
Before Election:	Herbert Hoover
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
After Election:	Franklin D. Roosevelt
After Party:	Democratic Party (United States)

The 1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas was held on November 8, 1932, as part of the concurrent 1932 United States presidential election held throughout all forty-eight contemporary states. State voters chose nine electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-president.

Except for the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.^[1] Disfranchisement of effectively all African-Americans and most poor whites had meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections.

The 1920s did see a minor change in this, as increased voting by poor Ozark whites as a protest against Woodrow Wilson's internationalist foreign policy meant that Warren G. Harding was able to win almost forty percent of the statewide vote in 1920;^[2] however despite his national landslide Calvin Coolidge in 1924 could not do any more than win the two traditional Unionist GOP counties. 1928 saw the rest of the Outer South and North Alabama bolt the anti-Prohibition Catholic Al Smith, but the presence of Arkansas Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson as running mate meant that within Arkansas only the most northwesterly counties with ordinarily substantial Republican votes would suffer the same fate.^[3]

The following years saw Arkansas plunge into the Great Depression, followed almost immediately by a major drought from the summer of 1930s until the winter of 1931/1932.^[4] This came on top of a long depression in agriculture, which was still the dominant player in Arkansas’ economy and was backed up by the “Great Migration” of the state's agricultural labor force to northeastern and midwestern cities.^[5]

With the Depression not improving, Arkansas gave extremely heavy support to Democrat Franklin Roosevelt in the 1932 election.^[6] Roosevelt won every county in the state, becoming the first Democrat to win Searcy County since before the Civil War and only the second to win adjacent Newton County.^[7] As of 2020, this remains the only time in history that a Democratic presidential nominee has swept every county in Arkansas, and one of only two times (along with Richard Nixon's 1972 landslide) that a candidate of any party has done so.

Results

Results by county

1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas by county^{[8] [9]}

County	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Herbert Clark Hoover Republican		Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist		William Hope Harvey Liberty		William Z. Foster Communist		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%		%		%
	Arkansas		2,867		84.45%		494		14.55%		19		0.56%		14		0.41%		1		0.03%		2,373		69.90%		3,395
	Ashley		2,537		92.83%		188		6.88%		5		0.18%		3		0.11%		0		0.00%		2,349		85.95%		2,733
	Baxter		1,039		82.85%		194		15.47%		13		1.04%		8		0.64%		0		0.00%		845		67.38%		1,254
	Benton		3,775		72.62%		1,275		24.53%		34		0.65%		110		2.12%		4		0.08%		2,500		48.10%		5,198
	Boone		2,644		78.11%		697		20.59%		12		0.35%		32		0.95%		0		0.00%		1,947		57.52%		3,385
	Bradley		1,985		93.76%		125		5.90%		5		0.24%		1		0.05%		1		0.05%		1,860		87.86%		2,117
	Calhoun		1,235		94.85%		59		4.53%		4		0.31%		4		0.31%		0		0.00%		1,176		90.32%		1,302
	Carroll		2,150		73.10%		758		25.77%		5		0.17%		26		0.88%		2		0.07%		1,392		47.33%		2,941
	Chicot		1,680		94.38%		98		5.51%		0		0.00%		1		0.06%		1		0.06%		1,582		88.88%		1,780
	Clark		3,037		93.88%		183		5.66%		6		0.19%		9		0.28%		0		0.00%		2,854		88.22%		3,235
	Clay		1,891		82.00%		397		17.22%		11		0.48%		5		0.22%		2		0.09%		1,494		64.79%		2,306
	Cleburne		1,750		88.29%		204		10.29%		14		0.71%		12		0.61%		2		0.10%		1,546		78.00%		1,982
	Cleveland		1,440		93.87%		92		6.00%		1		0.07%		1		0.07%		0		0.00%		1,348		87.87%		1,534
	Columbia		2,420		96.22%		85		3.38%		5		0.20%		5		0.20%		0		0.00%		2,335		92.84%		2,515
	Conway		2,530		89.24%		285		10.05%		9		0.32%		9		0.32%		2		0.07%		2,245		79.19%		2,835
	Craighead		4,412		87.09%		606		11.96%		33		0.65%		12		0.24%		3		0.06%		3,806		75.13%		5,066
	Crawford		2,962		77.46%		809		21.16%		31		0.81%		18		0.47%		4		0.10%		2,153		56.30%		3,824
	Crittenden		2,411		98.25%		37		1.51%		5		0.20%		1		0.04%		0		0.00%		2,374		96.74%		2,454
	Cross		2,066		95.47%		87		4.02%		6		0.28%		4		0.18%		1		0.05%		1,979		91.45%		2,164
	Dallas		2,139		93.16%		150		6.53%		6		0.26%		1		0.04%		0		0.00%		1,989		86.63%		2,296
	Desha		1,549		94.51%		81		4.94%		9		0.55%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,468		89.57%		1,639
	Drew		1,760		89.39%		198		10.06%		6		0.30%		5		0.25%		0		0.00%		1,562		79.33%		1,969
	Faulkner		2,749		84.77%		437		13.48%		9		0.28%		45		1.39%		3		0.09%		2,312		71.29%		3,243
	Franklin		1,896		84.83%		275		12.30%		47		2.10%		14		0.63%		3		0.13%		1,621		72.53%		2,235
	Fulton		1,235		83.84%		237		16.09%		1		0.07%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		998		67.75%		1,473
	Garland		4,252		83.60%		833		16.38%		1		0.02%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		3,419		67.22%		5,086
	Grant		1,626		96.50%		55		3.26%		1		0.06%		2		0.12%		1		0.06%		1,571		93.23%		1,685
	Greene		3,277		91.43%		274		7.65%		28		0.78%		2		0.06%		3		0.08%		3,003		83.79%		3,584
	Hempstead		2,840		89.90%		317		10.03%		2		0.06%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		2,523		79.87%		3,159
	Hot Spring		2,542		90.59%		237		8.45%		14		0.50%		10		0.36%		3		0.11%		2,305		82.15%		2,806
	Howard		1,703		91.02%		165		8.82%		3		0.16%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,538		82.20%		1,871
	Independence		2,427		86.34%		371		13.20%		3		0.11%		10		0.36%		0		0.00%		2,056		73.14%		2,811
	Izard		1,227		85.27%		200		13.90%		8		0.56%		3		0.21%		1		0.07%		1,027		71.37%		1,439
	Jackson		2,521		92.58%		193		7.09%		5		0.18%		2		0.07%		2		0.07%		2,328		85.49%		2,723
	Jefferson		5,248		92.23%		419		7.36%		13		0.23%		8		0.14%		2		0.04%		4,829		84.87%		5,690
	Johnson		1,557		81.60%		284		14.88%		42		2.20%		22		1.15%		3		0.16%		1,273		66.72%		1,908
	Lafayette		1,495		90.50%		151		9.14%		3		0.18%		3		0.18%		0		0.00%		1,344		81.36%		1,652
	Lawrence		3,056		89.54%		293		8.58%		28		0.82%		35		1.03%		1		0.03%		2,763		80.96%		3,413
	Lee		1,635		97.44%		39		2.32%		1		0.06%		3		0.18%		0		0.00%		1,596		95.11%		1,678
	Lincoln		1,301		96.30%		49		3.63%		1		0.07%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,252		92.67%		1,351
	Little River		1,399		91.80%		118		7.74%		4		0.26%		1		0.07%		2		0.13%		1,281		84.06%		1,524
	Logan		2,493		78.54%		645		20.32%		23		0.72%		11		0.35%		2		0.06%		1,848		58.22%		3,174
	Lonoke		2,951		94.04%		175		5.58%		7		0.22%		1		0.03%		4		0.13%		2,776		88.46%		3,138
	Madison		2,803		55.01%		2,197		43.12%		39		0.77%		50		0.98%		6		0.12%		606		11.89%		5,095
	Marion		1,282		80.18%		235		14.70%		40		2.50%		29		1.81%		13		0.81%		1,047		65.48%		1,599
	Miller		3,876		91.57%		322		7.61%		20		0.47%		11		0.26%		4		0.09%		3,554		83.96%		4,233
	Mississippi		5,776		93.12%		364		5.87%		46		0.74%		12		0.19%		5		0.08%		5,412		87.25%		6,203
	Monroe		1,753		90.59%		170		8.79%		9		0.47%		0		0.00%		3		0.16%		1,583		81.81%		1,935
	Montgomery		1,495		85.97%		211		12.13%		12		0.69%		21		1.21%		0		0.00%		1,284		73.84%		1,739
	Nevada		2,358		91.97%		197		7.68%		4		0.16%		1		0.04%		4		0.16%		2,161		84.28%		2,564
	Newton		941		62.32%		540		35.76%		26		1.72%		3		0.20%		0		0.00%		401		26.56%		1,510
	Ouachita		3,118		87.66%		432		12.15%		3		0.08%		3		0.08%		1		0.03%		2,686		75.51%		3,557
	Perry		1,347		91.38%		123		8.34%		3		0.20%		0		0.00%		1		0.07%		1,224		83.04%		1,474
	Phillips		2,976		94.66%		142		4.52%		0		0.00%		26		0.83%		0		0.00%		2,834		90.14%		3,144
	Pike		1,480		89.21%		176		10.61%		1		0.06%		2		0.12%		0		0.00%		1,304		78.60%		1,659
	Poinsett		4,312		93.01%		252		5.44%		48		1.04%		6		0.13%		18		0.39%		4,060		87.58%		4,636
	Polk		1,568		83.67%		223		11.90%		29		1.55%		54		2.88%		0		0.00%		1,345		71.77%		1,874
	Pope		2,391		88.49%		280		10.36%		11		0.41%		18		0.67%		2		0.07%		2,111		78.13%		2,702
	Prairie		1,743		91.21%		158		8.27%		5		0.26%		4		0.21%		1		0.05%		1,585		82.94%		1,911
	Pulaski		14,049		85.46%		2,281		13.87%		71		0.43%		29		0.18%		10		0.06%		11,768		71.58%		16,440
	Randolph		2,021		90.10%		206		9.18%		2		0.09%		12		0.53%		2		0.09%		1,815		80.92%		2,243
	St. Francis		2,191		92.56%		130		5.49%		33		1.39%		12		0.51%		1		0.04%		2,061		87.07%		2,367
	Saline		1,990		93.47%		107		5.03%		18		0.85%		9		0.42%		5		0.23%		1,883		88.45%		2,129
	Scott		1,042		79.42%		174		13.26%		27		2.06%		65		4.95%		4		0.30%		868		66.16%		1,312
	Searcy		947		52.38%		846		46.79%		11		0.61%		3		0.17%		1		0.06%		101		5.59%		1,808
	Sebastian		4,937		78.87%		1,268		20.26%		24		0.38%		25		0.40%		6		0.10%		3,669		58.61%		6,260
	Sevier		2,009		91.61%		162		7.39%		10		0.46%		12		0.55%		0		0.00%		1,847		84.22%		2,193
	Sharp		1,334		89.89%		142		9.57%		8		0.54%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,192		80.32%		1,484
	Stone		1,100		79.14%		261		18.78%		8		0.58%		20		1.44%		1		0.07%		839		60.36%		1,390
	Union		5,429		94.61%		245		4.27%		53		0.92%		10		0.17%		1		0.02%		5,184		90.35%		5,738
	Van Buren		1,456		77.04%		413		21.85%		14		0.74%		6		0.32%		1		0.05%		1,043		55.19%		1,890
	Washington		4,971		75.36%		1,502		22.77%		64		0.97%		48		0.73%		11		0.17%		3,469		52.59%		6,596
	White		3,251		87.75%		430		11.61%		19		0.51%		4		0.11%		1		0.03%		2,821		76.14%		3,705
	Woodruff		1,864		92.19%		135		6.68%		18		0.89%		3		0.15%		2		0.10%		1,729		85.51%		2,022
	Yell		2,010		87.77%		272		11.88%		7		0.31%		1		0.04%		0		0.00%		1,738		75.90%		2,290
Totals	189,529	86.44%	27,465	12.53%	1,166	0.53%	952	0.43%	157	0.07%	162,064	73.91%	219,269

See also

• United States presidential elections in Arkansas

Notes and References

1. See Book: Urwin, Cathy Kunzinger. Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71. 32. 1557282005.
2. Book: Phillips, Kevin P.. The Emerging Republican Majority. 211, 287. 978-0-691-16324-6.
3. Book: Barnes, Kenneth C.. Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960. 164–165. 168226016X.
4. Book: Whayne. Jeannie M.. DeBlack. Thomas A.. Sabo. George. Arnold. Morris S.. Arkansas: A Narrative History. 341–342. 155728993X.
5. Whayne, DeBlack, Sabo and Arnold. Arkansas, pp. 313-316
6. Book: Grantham, Dewey W.. The Life and Death of the Solid South: A Political History. 102. 0813148723.
7. Book: Menendez, Albert J.. 2005. McFarland & Company. Jefferson, North Carolina. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. 87. 0786422173.
8. Book: Robinson, Edgar Eugene. The Presidential Vote 1896-1932. 139–145. 9780804716963.
9. Web site: Géoelections. 1932 Presidential Election Popular Vote. (.xlsx file for €15 on request)